Show me a woman who is prouder of her clean kitchen than of her collection of lingerie and I'll show you a woman with enlarged pores.

Her column was ended around 2000 when the editors of Playboy expressed concern that Heimel's feminist attitudes would put off male readers. Heimel's first book Sex Tips for Girls was a semi-satirical take on Cosmopolitan (and other "women's" magazines) and their "how to please your man" approach to feminism. She resides in Oakland California.